The American Petroleum Institute (API), the oil industry’s most powerful trade group, first became aware of climate change as early as 1959, nearly 60 years ago. What the group did next was astonishing. After studying the problem of climate change for another decade, API then decided to embark on a science disinformation campaign that continues … Continue reading “Big Oil Knew”

Yes, we need big, glamorous, global cooperation to stem the tide of climate change – the type of change for which the Paris Agreement has laid a foundation. But for international agreements to work, we also need change at the local level.

We’re in a race against time to solve climate change. Can the good news catch up to the bad? This week, we got reports of serious climate impacts coming in from all around the world, from Peru to the Arctic. But new research shows positive progress on beef and the impact of clean energy on … Continue reading “The Good News…The Bad News…Week of March 24, 2017”

The struggle over vehicle emissions was in the news a lot this week, on both the good and bad sides of the climate beat. Meanwhile, methane and a worse-than-expected official budget are cause for worry.

Stay informed with the weekly Good News/Bad News recap from the team at Years of Living Dangerously. Rounding up the news as the Trump’s inaugural proceedings begin, the scales tip towards bad news for the climate this week.

– Tillerson Keeps it Vague
– As Tillerson Waffles, Exxon Must Show Its Cards
– Fossil Fuels Make Guest Appearance at Sessions Hearing
– New DOE Policy to Strengthen Scientists
– A Carbon Sink the Size of New York

– Confirmation hearings for Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson begin today
– Corporate Leaders: Fighting Climate Change is Good Business
– A species of bumblebee once common throughout the eastern US is at risk of extinction
– Can West Virginia’s new governor save coal country?

– Fears of a Climate Purge in the Trump Administration
– An “Open Mind” on Climate Change that Appears to Ignore Science
– World’s Top Oil Boss May Become America’s Top Diplomat
– Surprise — Oil Interests May Run DOE & DOI Too

Cars that can drive themselves are already on the road, with pilot projects of autonomous cars happening around the world. If you live in the U.S., you might have even driven past one without knowing it, because regulations still require someone to sit in the driver’s seat, as Ty Burrell learned in the Years of Living Dangerously … Continue reading “Picturing the Driverless Future”

The “$” indicates a news site that may have a paywall. #NoDAPL Succeeds: On Sunday afternoon, the Army Corps of Engineers announced they will deny a permit for the final easement of the Dakota Access pipeline on sacred Standing Rock Sioux burial sites, and will instead explore alternate routes. The announcement comes four months after the protests … Continue reading “Hot News: December 5, 2016”

– Trump, Climate, and the Gray Lady
– RGGI States Plan for Progress Under Trump
– Violence at DAPL Protest Site Continues
– How cities plan to fight climate change in the Trump years
– Washington state youth sue government over climate change

From the ability of sharks to sniff out food, to how well clownfish see and hear, to whether snails can escape being eaten by sea stars, acidification poses grave risks to ocean life beyond shellfish and coral.

– Get Out and Vote
– Climate on the Ballot
– Study Warns of Fastest Sea Level Rise in Human History
– What the world can learn from Burlington and Bernie Sanders
– COP22 day one: A news digest, in quotes

Years of Living Dangerously Events and Screenings PAST EVENTS June 9, 2017 “Collapse of the Oceans” – Episode Screening Friday at 9:45 PM Piazza Maggiore, Bologna Italy Part of the #All4TheGreen week of environmental events, the screening will be held at Piazza Maggiore, Bologna’s central square, on a solar-powered open air cinema. More details here. January 31 … Continue reading “Event Schedule”

– Matthew’s 1-in-1000 Year Rainfall
– Solar Capacity Leaps in the US
– In Vino Veritas: Global wine production for 2016 is projected to fall five percent from last year due to “climatic events”
– The other war on coal: Thousands of retired miners could lose their health care and pensions
– Clinton aides mulled carbon fee in climate policy memo
– France to abandon carbon floor price –media

Many climate experts say the solution to climate change is putting a strong price on carbon. That’s because making something expensive is a good motivation to get people to do it less. Right now, it’s free to pump carbon and other forms of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. But if we put a price … Continue reading “A Handy Guide to Carbon Pricing Resources”

By Lola Jusidman, #PutAPriceOnIt Fellow Climate change has lived permanently in my mind since I learned of it at age 12. No amount of science fiction books and epic space films could prepare me to learn of such a pervasive, unjust, and difficult existential threat. I felt betrayed by older generations and the government for exposing … Continue reading “Lola Jusidman: Why I Support a Price on Carbon”

– Hurricane Matthew Threatens the Caribbean
– Parched California Enters New Water Year
– India Ratifies Paris Agreement, Nearing Entry Into Force
– How the next U.S. president will control the fight against climate change
– Gubernatorial hopeful’s coal mines settle with feds
– Poor countries call for help in getting green stuff into climate projects
– Clean(ish) air is increasingly a preserve for wealthy nations

– Climate Change in the Spotlight at the Debate
– Study: US Needs Clean Power Plan, More Initiatives to Meet Goals
– Scientists Say Doomsday Warming Study Deeply Flawed
– The mind-boggling New Orleans heat record that no one is talking about
– A push to raise the wind tax in Wyoming blows up

By Grace Galletti, #PutAPriceOnIt Fellow I truly experienced climate change for the first time my junior year of high school. I had lived in Paris my whole life, and that year high schools all over the city cancelled gym classes outside because of high pollution levels. Before then, my dad had briefly brought up the subject … Continue reading “Grace Galletti: Why I Support a Price on Carbon”

– A Thin Slice of the California Desert
– Smith Subpoenas an Overreach
– Renewables: So Hot Right Now
– Americans appear willing to pay for a carbon tax policy
– Louisiana Republicans: This isn’t like Sandy

– August Another Record Month
– Scholars Condemn Lamar Smith Subpoenas
– Brazil Ratifies Paris Agreement
– India Retaliates on Solar Dispute
– Top takeaways from presidential candidates’ views on science
– Above the Arctic Circle, climate change closes in on the remote town of Barrow
– Wind power is going to get a lot cheaper as wind turbines get enormous

By Samuel Blackwood, Student at Fordham University The current economic system is inefficient. Carbon-fueled capitalism is not sustainable due to one simple fact: there is a limited supply of fossil fuels in the ground. While we are currently using fossil fuels to power our cars, houses, factories, etc, we are also destroying the environment around … Continue reading “Samuel Blackwood: Why I Support a Price on Carbon”

– #PutAPriceOnIt: Years of Living Dangerously has teamed up with Jack Black and other celebrities for a new campaign on carbon pricing
– Nation’s Largest Wind Project Gets Approval
– Trouble Brewing for Coffee Crops
– Big Trouble for Little Krill
– Coal country is wary of Hillary Clinton’s pledge to help (New York Times $)
– Gov. Brown signs bill to block state funding of coal terminals (Los Angeles Times $)

This is a story about my mother and a story about fairness. When I was growing up, she always embraced my successes, but also reminded me that someone, somewhere didn’t have access to the same opportunities as I did.

By Charlotte Umanoff, #PutAPriceOnIt Fellow This is a story about fish, and about not knowing what you have until it’s gone, or getting there. Growing up, my dad always told me that if I ate my omega-3s, I’d live to be one hundred. I think he mostly told me this to convince himself that he’d live … Continue reading “Charlotte Umanoff: Why I Support a Price on Carbon”

By Alex Cahill, #PutAPriceOnIt Fellow I had no idea that it takes around 1 gallon of water to grow a single almond. Sitting at the breakfast table with my yogurt and almond granola, I didn’t want to think of the gallons of water it took to produce my food or the thousands of miles … Continue reading “Alex Cahill: Why I Support a Price on Carbon”

The “$” indicates a news site that may have a paywall. Zika Risk Growing in Gulf States: Zika could extend its reach from Miami to Gulf States such as Texas and Louisiana, National Institute of Health official Anthony Fauci said in aninterview Monday. This warning comes just days after the CDC expanded on its first everdomestic travel … Continue reading “Hot News: August 23”

Mary Anne Hitt and Anna Jane Joyner are real-life climate heroes who are making the impossible possible, moving their communities beyond coal and proving that regular people working together can turn the corner on climate change.

The impacts of climate disruption in the United States and around the world are clear, costly and widespread. Human action can reduce the toll of climate change, but every year of delay means higher costs and impacts.

Climate change is real. It is human-caused. We’re seeing the effects now. And unless we start cutting carbon pollution soon, the impacts threaten to destroy the stable climate that made modern civilization possible. Let’s take these well-established points in turn.